Name: Junot Díaz — Radical Hope Is Our Best Weapon by On Being Studios
Duration: 51 min 54 s
Description: “From the bottom will the genius come that makes our ability to live with each other possible. I believe that with all my heart.” These are the words of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dominican-American writer Junot Díaz. His hope is fiercely reality-based, a product of centuries lodged in his body of African-Caribbean suffering, survival, and genius.

an amazing interview. So many excellent points I needed to hear on things I had no answer to/little perspective. As a black 2ND generation immigrant the 'fluency in silence' is SUCH an apt description I needed. Thank you very much.

Birdsong from an autumn afternoon at Mt. Kooyoora in central Victoria

A variety of woodland birds can be heard, including Spotted Pardalotes, White-browed Babblers, Fuscous Honeyeaters and Diamond Firetails

Kooyoora autumn afternoon

Here you can listen to Derek Walcott's poem recited by Kabat-Zinn, saying a prose statement was "bound to be inadequate" in communicating his point.

Read the full poem at http://www.onbeing.org/program/opening-our-lives/138

"Love After Love" by Derek Walcott (Read by Jon Kabat-Zinn)

The sound of a rainforest waking up on a rainy day is incredibly evocative. Heavy raindrops fall on leaves and vegetation all around. Long version at https://youtu.be/fRDUdndLSdE

Rainy morning in the jungle

Background, context, and poem text: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/18/amanda-palmer-wislawa-szymborska-possibilities-poem-reading/

Photograph by Allan Amato. 

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Amanda Palmer reads "Possibilities" by Wisława Szymborska

“Forests Of The World” is an international field recording project aiming to capture the sound of forests around the world.

Forests Of The World

Forests Of The World: Gjørg Pjustäät - Berchtesgaden - Germany

A guided mindfulness meditation from meditation teacher Carley Hauck.

A 10-Minute Meditation to Work with Difficult Emotions

“From the bottom will the genius come that makes our ability to live with each other possible. I believe that with all my heart.” These are the words of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dominican-American writer Junot Díaz. His hope is fiercely reality-based, a product of centuries lodged in his body of African-Caribbean suffering, survival, and genius.

On Being with Krista Tippett 

Junot Díaz — Radical Hope Is Our Best Weapon

@AmandaPalmer reads Jane Kenyon's sublime poem of living with and through depression. Originally recorded for Brain Pickings. Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/09/27/having-it-out-with-melancholy-jane-kenyon-amanda-palmer/

September 27, 2017

POEM TEXT / CONTEXT

Amanda Palmer reads "Having It Out With Melancholy" by Jane Kenyon

Andrew & Sarah talk about what you can hear on the Listening Earth nature album: 'Taiga - Europe's Boreal Wilderness'.

The album is available for download from http://www.listeningearth.com/LE/product.php?id=104

Andrew & Sarah take you track by track through 'Taiga - Europe's Boreal Wilderness'

A warm summer night along the Carson River in northern Nevada.  Cottonwoods whisper in the breeze as crickets and cicada stridulate and poorwills and distant screech owls and coyotes call.  A beaver climbs out of the stream, stumbles through the leaf litter and begins chewing on a log.  Use headphones to pick up the subtleties of this relaxing track.

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Summer night at the River

Recorded for Brain Pickings. Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/09/23/amanda-palmer-mary-oliver-when-i-am-among-the-trees/

POEM TEXT

Amanda Palmer reads "When I Am Among the Trees" by Mary Oliver

Groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning conversation about the big questions of meaning, hosted by Krista Tippett. Every Thursday a new discovery about the immensity of our lives — and frequent special features like poetry, music and Q + A with Krista.

Junot Díaz — Radical Hope Is Our Best Weapon

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